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Life on the Road

Life on the Road turns vehicle travel into a mobile workshop playstyle built around the Box Truck.

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Details

Use this page to judge what Life on the Road changes, how to test it first, and whether it belongs in your save or server.

The real risk is not only whether a vehicle spawns. It is whether saved vehicle data behaves after restart, update, and removal.

Vehicle loop

Life on the Road is mainly worth checking through map, POI, biome, or prefab placement, vehicle access route, driving, speed, and terrain behavior, fuel, repair, health, and storage, ownership and removal behavior, and recipe unlocks and required books. Do that in a copied save or test server before changing a main world.

Use 7 Days to Die Mods listing for exact file names, branches, screenshots, and update notes, then confirm the in-game behavior listed above still works after a restart.

  • Generate or load a test world, visit the affected places, then restart and check quest and trader routes.
  • Check whether the vehicle is crafted, bought, looted, quested, or admin-spawned.
  • Drive through roads, bridges, trader areas, POI doors, hills, and rough ground.
  • Refuel, damage, repair, fill storage, save, restart, and reconnect before public use.

Travel and access

Life on the Road needs testing across the whole vehicle loop: getting it, fuelling and repairing it, storing items in it, and driving it on real roads and POIs.

  • Check crafting, trader access, loot, or admin spawn separately.
  • Drive through cities, bridges, trader areas, and rough terrain.

Saved vehicle data

The important test is persistence: ownership, vehicle storage, repair state, fuel, position, and removal behavior after restart.

  • Do not use player-owned live vehicles as the first removal test.
  • Keep a world backup before changing a vehicle pack.

Server garage rules

On servers, write parking, abandoned vehicle, storage loss, and admin-recovery rules before the MOD becomes part of regular play.

  • Restart and reconnect before calling the setup stable.
  • Tell players how vehicle storage is handled on rollback.
  1. Spawn

    Craft, buy, loot, or admin-spawn the vehicle through the intended route.

  2. Drive

    Test city roads, rough terrain, bridges, POI doors, and trader areas.

  3. Persist

    Use storage, refuel, repair, restart, and check whether ownership survives.

  4. Server

    Set parking, abandoned-vehicle, and lost-storage rules before launch.

Install and first test

Run the check on a copy first, then decide whether it belongs in a real save or server.

  1. Check the branchCompare Source page live; verify V3 branch with the source page before installing.
  2. Check the install sideThis entry records the install side as Check source page install side. Confirm which sides need matching files before you install.
  3. Test the changed contentCheck map, POI, biome, or prefab placement, vehicle access route, driving, speed, and terrain behavior, and fuel, repair, health, and storage, then save, restart, and reconnect if the MOD is used on a server.
  4. Test a copyUse a copied world or staging server before regular players join.
  5. Record the resultKeep the source page, file label, game branch, and rollback point together.

Server use

Use this part before bringing the MOD into a regular server.

Vehicles
Test several vehicle types obtained through normal play.
Storage
Check inventory after restart and disconnect.
Removal
Remove only on a copied world first.

Notes before use

The page is useful for planning, but it does not replace your own branch and save test.

  • Do not use live player vehicles as the first removal test.
  • Keep fuel, repair, storage, and ownership rules visible on servers.

Version and file check

Recorded game
Source page live; verify V3 branch
Version range
Needs check
Install side
Check source page install side
Dependency
No confirmed dependency

Listing notice

MOD information on 7DTD Signal is collected from publicly available online sources and rewritten for navigation, compatibility judgment, and player reference. If you are a rights holder and believe any material is used improperly, please submit a feedback request and we will check, edit, or remove the entry promptly.